Cinnecting terminal sinside FH3 FP

[nrg2009]

Any comments on soldering the internals, or is using quick connect terminals? I read soldering on the drivers may be tricky.

 

[planet10]

We always solder the connectors. We also use 24g solid core wire so that makes it fairly easy.

dave

 

[dpastern]

Thanks for the visual tutorials guys any tips on soldering, since I cannot for the life of me solder. It's like playing a musical instrument - you can either do it or not ;-)

Dave

 

[chrisb]

Thanks for the visual tutorials guys any tips on soldering, since I cannot for the life of me solder. It's like playing a musical instrument - you can either do it or not ;-)

Dave

trust me, soldering is much easier to learn than playing even chopsticks on your kid's toy piano, or Louie Louie on a six string

 

[dpastern]

trust me, soldering is much easier to learn than playing even chopsticks on your kid's toy piano, or Louie Louie on a six string

I'm gonna have problems them. FYI, my music teacher in junior high called me the worst music student she'd even have - I was totally inept (and totally not interested in music at that age). ;-)

Dave

 

[chrisb]

trust me, soldering is much easier to learn than playing even chopsticks on your kid's toy piano, or Louie Louie on a six string

I'm gonna have problems them. FYI, my music teacher in junior high called me the worst music student she'd even have - I was totally inept (and totally not interested in music at that age). ;-)

Dave

$hit, that was 'sposed to be encouragement to by a cheap solder gun or iron and clandestinely practice late at night in the basement -- unless you already use that time for other purposes

normally, I'd encourage multitasking as good brain exercise, but a hot soldering gun/iron is not a plaything

 

[dpastern]

$hit, that was 'sposed to be encouragement to by a cheap solder gun or iron and clandestinely practice late at night in the basement -- unless you already use that time for other purposes

normally, I'd encourage multitasking as good brain exercise, but a hot soldering gun/iron is not a plaything

That's OK, you weren't to know that I'm musically inept! My dad has a soldering gun, but I don't know if it's really that good or not. I could try, but I think it'll look ugly ;-)

Good news though - Ben and Sounds with style can offer me a complete package (built). Think that I might play it safe and go that way!

Thanks for the encouragement though!

Dave

 

[HPH]

Hi Mr.Dave,
I have a pair of alpair 7.3 and care to build fg mk3, can you please advice as I saw the back panel of mk3 kit has a small hole (I can't see it in drawing) so is it specialize for drivers (if so please advice which driver is it?). Can you please also advice dimension of this hole.
Thanks you

 

[zman01]

HPH,

If I may be allowed to jump in - the hole in the back panel of the kit is for binding posts. I am attaching a picture of one similar to what Mr. Dave and Mr. ChrisB use.

You can use different type if you want to.

 

[planet10]

HPH,

If I may be allowed to jump in - the hole in the back panel of the kit is for binding posts. I am attaching a picture of one similar to what Mr. Dave and Mr. ChrisB use.

You can use different type if you want to.

What Zia said. We use the same but the posts have plastic nuts which we prefer (esthetically & sonically)

dave

 

[HPH]

Hi All,
Thanks you very much for your advice that really help

 

[angeloPB]

We always solder the connectors. We also use 24g solid core wire so that makes it fairly easy.

dave

Dumb question: Do we use one braided strand per speaker terminal or do we solder one lead per speaker terminal?

The 24g wire seems VERY thin, almost like interconnect.

 

[chrisb]

Yup, 24g is thin, but much thicker than the voice coils in any of the candidate FR drivers likely to be used in the FH, and with the location of the input cup you're probably dealing with less than 12" of wire. We use a single conductor per polarity.

BTW, it actually does make for decent interconnects as well.

 

[angeloPB]

Yup, 24g is thin, but much thicker than the voice coils in any of the candidate FR drivers likely to be used in the FH, and with the location of the input cup you're probably dealing with less than 12" of wire. We use a single conductor per polarity.

BTW, it actually does make for decent interconnects as well.

It looks like telephone wire. I trust its capacitance/inductance ratio is up to par.

I should be finishing these up soon. I am going to go the Duratex route. I ordered the roller grade tint base and shot it with tints to make cobalt blue tint. Hopefully it will come out o.k. The idea is to be be cool looking but tough, with a nod to pro sound durability. My DIY chops are not that great but I am enjoying this.